Conflicted Legacies of WWI
A system of labor relations that stressed management’s responsibility for employees’ well-being.
welfare capitalism
A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup, freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions, dancing to jazz, and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
flapper
A flourishing of African-American artists, writers, intellectuals, and social leaders in the 1920s, centered in the neighborhoods of New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
the production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed.
overproduction
A system of voluntary business cooperation with the government. The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
associated state
DAILY DOUBLE
A term for anticommunist hysteria that swept the United States, first after World War I, and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
The First Red Scare
An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU)
Unique American musical form, developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I, musicians developed an ensemble improvisational style.
jazz
Some sectors of the economy, notably _________________, never recovered from a sharp recession in the wake of World War I.
agriculture
A series of raids led by the Attorney General on radical organizations peaked in January 1920, when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
The Palmer Raids
an organization founded by women activists in 1919; its members denounced imperialism, stressed the human suffering caused by militarism, and proposed social justice measures.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Policy emphasizing the connection between America’s economic and political interests overseas. Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf, while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
Dollar Diplomacy
The phrase was coined by writer Gertrude Stein to refer to young artists and writers who had suffered through World War I and felt alienated from America’s mass-culture society in the 1920s.
Lost Generation
New forms of borrowing, such as auto loans and installment plans, flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
consumer credit
These men were convicted of murdering a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard; they were Italians, atheists, anarchists, draft dodgers and the courts may have been prejudiced against them.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The 1923 Supreme Court case that voided a minimum wage for women workers in the District of Columbia, reversed many of the gains that had been achieved through the groundbreaking decision in Muller v. Oregon.
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality’s percentage of the U.S. population as it had stood in 1890. The law severely limited immigration, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
National Origins Act
DAILY DOUBLE
The idea that people of African descent, in all parts of the world, have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.
pan-Africanism
Black Tuesday
The 1925 trial of a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, for violating his state’s ban on teaching evolution. The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
The Scopes Trial
This cartoon from the Post Dispatch in Cleveland, Ohio, reflects nationwide panic over the general strike by 110 unions that paralyzed Seattle in February 1919.
Fear of “Bolshevism,” 1919
Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G. Harding’s presidency.
Teapot Dome Scandal
DAILY DOUBLE
A Harlem-based group, led by charismatic, Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey, that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Identify FOUR causes of the Great Depression
Farmer debt, Consumer debt, (overproduction) more goods than buyers, and a decline in overseas trade
African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927.
Marcus Garvey